Specifying font for a special glyph

Question

Is it possible to set a font for a glyph without adding markup around each occurrence of the glyph? e.g. my current font does not support angle bracket (〈 〉).

Do you want to use the angle bracket within math mode? \langle \rangle? — Sigur, Mar 23 '14 at 13:35
@Sigur No, in text mode. In math mode it works correctly using unicode-math — Real Dreams, Mar 23 '14 at 13:36
Related question: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/335/can-i-change-the-font-and-colour-of-a-letter-permanently?rq=1 — alexis, Mar 23 '14 at 13:43

Henri Menke · Answer 1 · 2014-03-23T13:53:49.443

4

You can use the newunicodechar package. (Also works with xelatex)

\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}% for cropping
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenx}
\usepackage{newunicodechar}
\newunicodechar{〈}{\ensuremath{\langle}}
\newunicodechar{〉}{\ensuremath{\rangle}}
\begin{document}
Here are angle〈 〉brackets.

$Here are angle〈 〉brackets.$
\end{document}

edited Mar 23 '14 at 13:53

answered Mar 23 '14 at 13:38

Henri Menke

109,596

This is one of the cases where \ensuremath can be useful. – egreg Mar 23 '14 at 13:44
@egreg Indeed. This is the first time, that \ensuremath comes in handy to me. – Henri Menke Mar 23 '14 at 13:54

Specifying font for a special glyph

1 Answers1